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TuxLinux:
Also, some sound cards under linux will not have MIDI support at all  or direct support.  on some sound cards you can actually use kmidi (think it is thimidy??) and it will stil lwork on those cards. Since you  are able to get any sound at all. Likely it is some other problem.

slvadcjelli42:
Thanks for the advice... it's not working now so I guess I'll reboot, but I hope I won't have to do that on a regular basis (it seems to take a while).

Uh oh, what did I do now? I was just trying to get the samba client working correctly so I could see shared files on the windows computer (I just set up a network between the two) and somehow ended up snooping around in /dev... then i tried to go "into" /dev/hda... I was informed that that was not a directory... so instead I say "cat /dev/hda"... wow, looks like something out of the Matrix. It's been going on for about 5 minutes now, I hope I'm not getting myself in over my head Still going... I guess I'll try to close it

slvadcjelli42:
Okay, that was weird. I can't run sngconfig for some reason, it seems non-existant. That wouldn't happen to be the "Soundcard Detection" system setting thing, would it? (i've tried that). I'll reboot now, but It's probably going to come back after a little while.

sime:
Hi Dirk,

Sndstat may or may not work, it's changed over the years.

It's one of those ones you would expect to find in /proc along with the other bits and bobs I mentioned earlier but actually appears in /dev

cat /dev/sndstat

The shell version does not work on my 7.2 box but that's probably because the sound is up the duff and I couldn't care less as that particular box is a web server.

Just out of interest does the MB have on board LAN as well?

Some info about sndstat can be found here http://www.oreilly.de/catalog/multilinux/excerpt/ch14-04.htm

Have fun

Sime

slvadcjelli42:
(Rebooted) Yes, LAN is onboard, too, but I've never had any problems with that on any computer,  for some reason... always had problems if sound or video was onboard though. hm...
Well, I didn't get the error message but sound is still not working... except in the "KDE Control Module Sound Server" settings! I can test a sound there and it plays this weird bubbly techno stuff... no sound anywhere else though.

"The device /dev/sndstat/ [. . .] is much like the files found in the /proc filesystem (and arguably should be found there)."   :D  
Aw, man... "/dev/sndstat: No such device" what's up with that?

HEY! It works! I forced the "aRts soundserver" to restart by turning a setting off/on and then pressing apply... now other sounds work. who knows how long it'll last, though   :(  

(Sorry for the rambling nature of this post, I was writing it as I did all that stuff)

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